Gospel Code
Novel Claims About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Da Vinci

This patient dissection of heresies is diminished, for me at least, having followed a reading of “Reason for God” by Tim Keller. What results is a stark contrast between an author that exudes compassion and empathy for his audience’s sincerely-held fallacies and a scholar’s rabid attack that, althou......more

A scholarly dumping on the Da Vinci Code and the obnoxious, ignorant speculations that have arisen from such novelties. I found the book to be very interesting and hold a high esteem for Witherington as a scholar, despite his liberalities and how difficult he is to pick though. I found the parts wit......more

It's a really interesting book, but not even near to the title. All the topics are well research and treated with respect and objectivity, but they only mentioned The Da Vinci Code a couple of times in the book (not really what one expects with the book description). Anyway, I liked the book so 3/5 s......more

Refutation of the general heresy of Gnosticism and claims about Mary Magdalene as the wife of Jesus, specifically in response to the forever-running best seller "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown (which I rated "Well, OK, I guess" for its fun but not great suspense). Witherington does a good job of maki......more

A clear and above all well-researched criticism of Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code. Mr Witherington explores the true history of the early church, the actual findings of scholars of the first Christian centuries, and the real doctrines of Gnosticism. Going in, I expected to find abstruse chains of reas......more